Former residents of Baltimore Fisheries School want a face-to-face meeting with a senior member of the Government in the wake of the Laffoy interim report which found evidence of sexual and physical abuse at the industrial school.
Mr John Griffin, a former resident, said he was disappointed that no representative of the Government has made an attempt to contact them.
Mr Griffin is involved with an a informal group of former residents, many still living in the west Cork area.
On Friday, Miss Justice Laffoy's report found evidence of neglect, emotional, sexual and physical abuse at the west Cork industrial school in the 1930s and 1940s.
"We would like to meet somebody face to face," said Mr Griffin.
"It would be nice. But we haven't heard a thing. They seem to want to wash their hands of us.
"To this day not one of us has spoken to a representative of the Government.
"All we have had is a general apology from Bertie Ahern. But it hasn't meant a whole lot."
According to Mr Griffin, the harsh conditions at the school had led to a lower life expectancy among the former residents.
Mr Griffin first highlighted conditions at the school in 1999 in Suffer the Little Children, the book which accompanied the television series States of Fear.
Friday's interim report backed up these claims in its first and only report into specific allegations. The report concluded that "severe physical punishment was a constant feature of discipline" at Baltimore Fisheries School, which would be categorised as abusive.
The investigation committee of the commission said it was also satisfied that there was one serial sex abuser on the school staff during the period, and, "as a matter of probability", other abusers.
The report says that the "most startling failure" related to the lack of food provided for the boys.
The commission heard evidence that former residents supplemented their diets by eating raw vegetables and vegetation, and by scavenging, begging and stealing in the village of Baltimore.
It noted many of the 21 former residents who gave evidence were of a small stature.
According to Mr Griffin, the malnourishment and conditions have led to a low life expectancy among the former residents.
Of the 150 boys aged between 10 and 15 years in the school when it closed in 1950, he knows of only 21 who are still alive. "We have buried a lot of them."
Mr Griffin, originally from Cork Street in Dublin was taken into care at six weeks of age, and was in Baltimore between 1945 and 1950.
"The abuse didn't finish with Baltimore. I spent three years as a farm hand working from dawn till after eleven for no money."
Mr Griffin subsequently emigrated to New Zealand and worked in the British merchant navy before returning to Skibbereen in the mid-1990s.